There’s something wrong with that boy.
Casey Affleck’s gothic western Company tells overlapping stories: including one about of a frontier farming couple in 1903 who take in a troubled young drifter named Caleb (Casey’s son Atticus Affleck) during a murder spree.
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Scoot McNairy from Furious and Adelaide Clemens play the farming couple.
Footage:
Cabin in Whislter Olympic Park.
What is Company about?
On a winter night in 1975, a mysterious woman named Evelyn (Emily Alyn Lind,) arrives uninvited at a holiday gathering and tells the story of Tom (Nick Nolte), an ageing hermit who rescues a stranded actress during a Colorado blizzard in 1953.
To pass the night, the actress recounts an older tale of a farming couple (Scott McNairy & Adelaide Clemens) who take in a troubled young drifter (Atticus Affleck) as a series of grisly murders spreads fear across the frontier. As the stories intertwine across generations, Company becomes a meditation on grief, vengeance, forgiveness and the quiet acts of compassion that can heal even the deepest wounds.
Shot mostly in snowy Whistler Olympic Park, this is the third film Casey Affleck has directed.
Director’s statement at Venice Film Festival:
Company began far from where it arrived. It’s my third film and only after finishing did I realize it was the culmination of a trilogy I never knew I was making. My first film is about a man who is almost entirely consumed by himself. The second, a man who is almost entirely selfless. If the first film asks, What happens when we refuse love? and the second asks, How do we love another person as we can?, the third asks, How do we make peace with the lives we’ve actually been given? That’s a question I’ve been living with for a long time
Company – Feature.
Vancouver filming dates: March 24 2025 – April 16 2025.
Writers: Casey Affleck, Ron Hansen.
Director: Casey Affleck.
Cast: Nick Nolte, Ben Mendelsohn, Adelaide Clemens, Scoot McNairy, Emily Alyn Lind, Caylee Cowan, Atticus Affleck, Indiana Affleck.